2000 in archaeology

none 2000 archaeology science The year 2000 in archaeology included many events, some of which are listed below. Excavations June – excavations at al-Moghraqa, a Middle Bronze Age former settlement in Palestine, as part of the Gaza Research Project.Steel Louise Clarke Joanne Sadeq Moain Manley Bill McCarthy Andrew Munro R. Neil Gaza Research Project. Report on the 1999 and 2000 seasons at al-Moghraqa Levant 2004 36 43–79 10.1179/lev.2004.36.1.37 International excavations of the Middle Stone Age occupation cave sites at Pinnacle Point near Mossel Bay in South Africa begin.Marean, C.W. 2004 Paleoanthropological investigations of Middle Stone Age sites at Pinnacle Point, Mossel Bay (South Africa): archaeology and hominid remains from the 2000 field season PaleoAnthropology 1 14–83 etal Excavation and restoration of Mor Yakup Church in Turkey begins. Re-excavation of tomb KV32 in Egypt's Valley of the Kings begins. Finds March – Railway viaduct of c.1790 at Blaenavon in south Wales unearthed.Time Team February 2001. Spring – Clive Cussler's National Underwater and Marine Agency discovers the wreck of Carpathia (sunk 1918) 120 mi km on west of Fastnet Rock.http://www.titanic-titanic.com/carpathia_found.shtml Discovery Of R.M.S. Carpathia Titanic-Titanic.com 2000-09-23 2012-03-16 https://web.archive.org/web/20071022092729/http://www.titanic-titanic.com/carpathia_found.shtml 2007-10-22 dead May – Wreckage of the Lockheed F-5B Lightning reconnaissance aircraft flown by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry at the time of his death in 1944 is discovered in the Mediterranean Sea off Marseille."France Finds Crash Site of 'Little Prince' Author Saint-Exupery." Europe Intelligence Wire, Agence France-Presse, 2004-04-07. Retrieved 2011-11-09 via Gale General OneFile (subscription). Gale Document Number: GALE|A115071273. May 15 – A steam locomotive and 15 dump cars from Panama Canal French construction attempts, 1881–1894, are recovered from the bed of Gatun Lake.Panama Rescues Sunken French Train https://apnews.com/article/3371ab9333ac7b12f9e90f5750bbf7f1 AP 2000-05-17 2021-07-26 September – Egyptian archeologists announce the discovery of more than 100 mummies – some from 500 BC and most from Roman time – in the Valley of the Golden Mummies. November 19 – Hallaton Treasure found in Leicestershire, England, comprising over 5,000 silver and gold coins, mostly of the Corieltauvi, the Hallaton Helmet and other metal objects from around the time of the Roman conquest of Britain.Coin hoard declared treasure http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/leicestershire/2929197.stm BBC News 2003-04-08 2014-07-07 December 7 – Kadisoka temple is discovered in Sleman, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. On Nelson's Island off the coast of Alexandria, Egypt, Italian archaeologist Dr. Paolo Gallo uncovers a group of graves dating from the 1798 Battle of the Nile. The graves contain the remains of British Royal Navy officers, sailors, and marines, as well as women and children. Shang dynasty road discovered at Anyang Aero Sports School near Yinxu, the ancient capital of China. Kakinoshima site located in Japan. Girl of the Uchter Moor in Germany. Milton Keynes Hoard in England. Gevninge helmet fragment in Denmark. Wreck of Russian cruiser Pallada (1906) off the coast of Finland. Events August 8 – Wreck of Confederate submarine H. L. Hunley is raised in South Carolina. November 5 – Shinichi Fujimura is exposed as having planted forged Paleolithic artefacts at Japanese sites by the Mainichi Shimbun newspaper.'God's Hands' Did the Devil's Work Kristin M. Romey Archaeology Archaeology Archive https://archive.archaeology.org/0101/newsbriefs/godshands.html 2024-11-25 54 1 2001 Publications Wayne D. Cocroft – Dangerous Energy: the archaeology of gunpowder and military explosives manufacture. London: English Heritage. 1-85074-718-0 James Cuno – Who Owns Antiquity? – museums and the battle over our ancient heritage. Princeton University Press. 978-0-691-13712-4 A. F. Harding – European Societies in the Bronze Age. Cambridge University Press. 0-521-36477-9 Richard Hodges – Towns and Trade in the Age of Charlemagne. London: Duckworth. 0-7156-2965-4 Adrienne Mayor – The First Fossil Hunters: paleontology in Greek and Roman times. Princeton University Press. 0-691-05863-6 Mark Redknap – Vikings in Wales: an archaeological quest. Cardiff: National Museums & Galleries of Wales. 0-7200-0486-1 Colin Renfrew and K. V. Boyle (ed.) – Archaeogenetics: DNA and the population prehistory of Europe. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research. 1-902937-08-2 Michael Stratton and Barrie Trinder – Twentieth Century Industrial Archaeology. London: E & FN Spon. 0-419-24680-0 Richard J. A. Talbert (ed.) – Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. 0-691-03169-X Deaths January 11 – Timothy W. Potter, English archaeologist (b. 1944)Wallace-Hadrill Andrew Timothy William Potter (6 July 1944–11 January 2000) Papers of the British School at Rome 2013-08-09 68 ix–xix 10.1017/S006824620000386X free November 25 – James Deetz, American anthropologist and historical archaeologist (b. 1930) See also Pompeii – computerized digital photographs. References Category:Archaeology by year Archaeology Category:2000s in archaeology